CISP: The inscription is in half-uncial. The first ascender of the M joins the second at both the top and bottom; the A is in the `OC' form and the E is closed.

Legibility:

goodPetrie/1872, 71, states that the `letters on [this stone are]...so mutilated that it is impossible to say what name...[they] may have stood for'. But Macalister/1909, 32, and Macalister/1949, 55, give no indication that the inscription is damaged or difficult to read.